colonia

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Pronunciation

  • Stress: colònia, IPA(key): /koˈlɔnja/

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. colony

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Stress: colònia, IPA(key): /koˈlɔnja/

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. cologne, eau de Cologne
Synonyms
  • acqua di colonia

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Stress: colonìa, IPA(key): /koloˈni.a/

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. holding (farm)

Etymology 4

Noun

colonia f (plural colonie)

  1. resort

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈloː.ni.a/, [kɔˈɫoː.ni.a]

Noun

colōnia f (genitive colōniae); first declension

  1. A colony, settlement.
  2. A possession in land, land attached to a farm, estate.
  3. (metonymically) The people composing a colony, colonists.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative colōnia colōniae
genitive colōniae colōniārum
dative colōniae colōniīs
accusative colōniam colōniās
ablative colōniā colōniīs
vocative colōnia colōniae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • colonia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • colonia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to found a colony somewhere: coloniam deducere in aliquem locum (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
    • to found a colony: coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16)
  • colonia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colonia in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • colonia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • colonia in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).

Noun

colonia f (plural colonias)

  1. colony
  2. (Mexico) neighbourhood

Usage notes

  • In Mexico it is usually shortened and capitalized as "Col." in addresses, where it has postal value and is obligatory (or fraccionamiento, or barrio), alongside of postal code (zip code).

See also

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